"This is for the Senior members of CS, those born before 1947. Baby Boomers and Generations X & Y are welcome providing you are over 18 ๐
But this is definitely for people who are facing the last long haul. We have survived babyhood, childhood, being teens and twenties... We have learned to read and write, to drive, have probably been married and the women have survived child birth.
The challenges are constant and the near misses of death are also there. If we have become a senior we have learned to survive so much, and along the way we have, of course, gathered a great deal of knowledge about life.
The belief that age diminishes us is not true, it changes us and not all of it is bad. Yes there can be various forms of dementia for some, but that is also a disease that can happen in younger people. Alzheimer's can also occur - it is another form of dementia and generally occurs in people over 65, although that can occur much earlier too and not everyone is going to get it.
Most of us keep our mental alertness up to the moment of death, even if we lose our hearing and our eyesight, but of course this can happen at any age too.
What changes is our physical strength, which diminishes but our mental strength and patience grows, it has to of course, to deal with this aging thing.
Arthritis, heart trouble, strokes - all these things associated with age can happen at any time in your life - arthritis can happen when you are a child but they don't like giving out new hips and knees until you are in your 50s and 60s or later. We can talk about that too.
Cancer can happen any time and that is also something we can discuss here if you like.
The point of this thread is to give the Seniors a chance to talk about how they are coping with age, the challenges it presents and the fears that can come with it... loss of hearing or sight, aging spouses, living alone, retirement villages, even death...
So I will ask that the Juniors treat us in kindly fashion and remember, all this is going to happen to you too - providing you avoid death before you get here ๐
So, onward and upward. Let's go...."
OH just told me the driver who took him to the hospital today was doing 150 kph? in a 110 area..?
what do I do....if anything..he arrived safely home...but next time?
Was OH in the front with the driver? If not then he wouldn't know what speed he was doing.
Ambulances don't have to stick to the speed rules, the drivers are licenced to drive at much faster speeds, providing they are doing it safely, and they do have the training for that.
They usuall do have their lights and sirens on.
I have been in an amblance doing 150 down a very long highway to get to a child who was having febrile convulsions... thankfully we got there in time and was able to transport it to hospital... going at a far more sedate speed ๐
Gil I wouldn' worry about it, they won't do the same speed delivering him home and, as I said, they are trained for speed.
I'm here Richo, breathing in and out, in and out, in and out.
Went to a remedical massager today for my back. She's only five minutes away from me and that makes such a difference, as usually I have to drive 30 minutes away for most things.
I am hoping it will do my back some good, as it has been really terribly painful...
but I'm still breathing :^O
Okay you guys! Who's forgotten to stop breathing? Come on now, own up X-(
:^O
